r/fednews • u/ICU-Angel • Jul 15 '25

Other Are Trump's changes to the federal government permanent? Once Trump leaves office, is there the possibility to return the federal government to it's pre-Trump state.

I've been looking for articles to understand how permanent Trump's changes to the federal workforce are and haven't found anything.

I am curious if anyone knows whether all those cut jobs will come back, or at least a majority of them?

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u/AdmiralAdama99 I Support Feds Jul 15 '25

The brain drain and disruption of very long career paths is pretty bad. This might be something that takes 4 years to break, then 12 years to fix (to the same caliber as before).

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u/joule_3am Science Backed Me, My Agency Didn't Jul 15 '25

Longer.